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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-07-07
Now York Death Reoort.

NEW York, July 5,-The deaths reported
TO the health board Sunday numbered Esd.
This is the largest figure for one day sincs
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The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-07-07

AUGUSTA, Me-, July 5.-Ex-G Governor
Morrill, is sinking rapidly. He is wholly un-
concious, almost motionless, and unable to
take food
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-07-07
turkey Breaks Faith with England.

LONDON, July 6.-The sultan has left the
Anglo Egyptian treaty to go by default.
Yesterday was the last day and he withheld
his signature
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-20
A Good WhiteWaSh.

J.P. asks: "Will you please give
receipt in your next issue to mako q
whitewash that will stand the weather,
and also what to color with to make a
deep slate colorf" Answer: Sake one
half bushcl lime, strain, and add a peck
of salt dissolved in warm water, three
pounds ground rice put in boiling
water aud boiled to a thin paste, one
half pound powdered Spanish whiting,
and pound of clear glue dissolved in
warm water. NIX these we'll together,
and let the mixture stand for several
days. Keep the wash thus prepared in
kettle or portable furnace, and when
used, put it on as hot as possible, with
painters or whitewash brushes. Color
to suit by adding sparingly of dry pig
ment. -[Scicntflc American.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-20
Philosophy.

iJsto tho few is surfeit Of pleasure,
BAY as the butterfly slipping its sweet,
Trapping through gardens minuet measure,
Happy of spirit. with fairy-shod feet
Ga1sao the many's desert of sorrow,
Menry of heart and with plentiful tears;
5rissmg to-day with 10 hopes for the NOR
r"w,
Slowly they wear out the beautiful year.
L;de IS it is las sufficient of either
SodseSs and gladness 10 answer our need.
laughter and weeping, made wholly of
neither:
KnIrest is always the growth of the seed,
Ting who 60 bravely, with courage believing
III IS not evil, w l. garner the good;
Ihsy a deceived who forecast deceiving,
Brnefts given are not understood.
-[Aahie Robertson Noxon.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-20
A Great Country for Railroads.

'Tvc just been doing an odd bit of
figurin'," remarked brakeman to a
Chicago Herald reporter. "By actual
count I've found that there arc now 30,-
GG9 railway stations in the United States
at which agents arc stationed. A good
many2 You bet it is. Why, jus. think
of it; that's ono station for every 1900
people the country through. In the big
cities the proportion IS much smaller.
In place like Chicago, for instance,
there arc only half dozen stations, sub
urban stopping places not being counted,
for 725, 900 people. In Illinois, outside
of Chicago, thcrc arc nearly $500 sta
tions S'posc travelling man should
start out to visit all the stations in the
United States; say he could make two
stations day, how long would it take
him to make the grand rouadsa Oaly
fifty years. Aud by the time he had
got around there'd b, enough new sta
tions to keep him goin' fifty years more.
This is a mighty big country. Chicago
has ge,tcr number of railways than
any other city IN the country, or the
W. rid, and the biggest ones, to- Chi
cago has 20 roads, St. Louis and Cincin-
natl IA each, New York 13, Boston and
Philadelphia 10 each, Pittsburgh II,
Buffalo 10. Some of the smaller towns
arc pretty we'll fixed for railroads too.
Columbus, Ohio, has as many as Boston
or Philadelphia, and Dayton, Ohio, and
Minneapolis have each. The greatest
railroad town for its size is D ,catur, ILL.,,
which has seven roads and population
OF 10, 900. I've lie .rd that in the ILL
no:s insan. asy!ums there are about 400
people from Decatur, all made crazy by
trying to keep up with tho changes in
railway time tables"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-20
How Good Butter Is Made.

Judge M. R. Gray of Ryesatc, N. H.,
who took second prize offered by the Man
chester Mirror for best butter shown at
the Vermont dairy meeting at st. Johns
bury, gave his methods of feeding and
butter making rs follows: His cows are
chiefly thoroughbred Jerseys, though he
has a few high grades. The winter feed
is coarse fodder, such as corn stalks,
wheat, rye, oat, or barley hay fed night
and morning, with ordinary English hay
at noon. The coarse fodder is cut and
steamed about two hours in the morning.
The grain is equal weights of corn and
cob meal and bran, four quarts ut meal
morning and night. Waters after feed
ing in the morning and before feeding
at night. From eighteen to twenty five
COWS are kept. The milk is set in large
open pans, usually thirty-six hours, and
at temperature of go to 10 degrees.
Churning is done from two to four times
per week, in dash churn run by horse
mower. This winter tho creamis churned
at 67 degrees, and the butter comes in
GOOD condition to handle. Just before
the butter is ready to separate the horse
is stopped and the churning finished by
hand. When finished the butter is
rinsed of in clear water, and half
ounce of salt per pound sprinkled over
it and worked in. While the butter is
being compacted by lever hand worker
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-20
Her Beaver Hat.

A young lady wearing beaver hat
confdcd to o correspondent OF the
New York Mail and Express how she
kept the nap so smooth and shiny.
She says: "First brush the hat
thoroughly, so as to get all the tbres
Strengthened out in one direction. Then
take q silk handkerchief and pour into
the middle of it about half teaspoon
tul of salad oil. Rub the handkerchief
in your hands until the oil is thoroughly
distributed through it. Then 60 over
your hat time after time with the silk
thus prepared. Lay the handkerchief
aside, and use it every day upon the hat,
without, however, replenishing the oil
more than once q week. The hat in
this way will be kept in perfect order,
and even an ordinary wctting will not
disturb it.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-20
LADIES' DEPARTMENT.
A Freak of Fashionable Society.

"Well, lido say" exclaimed fash
ionablc lady in our hearing. ''What
are we coming to anyhow The latest
fad in Boston is to have sedan chairs in
The drawing room. Not bogus ones, re-
member, but quaint old things that
were once actually in use, and two hun
dred dollars is considered small price
to pay for them. 1t is made a reposi-
tory for bric- a-brac, to be sure, but it
strikes me that it's entirely too cumbcr-
some and aesthetic. Next, the ladies
will be seen taking an airing in them,
provided they can overawe the irrevcr.
cnt small boy. hope nobody will be
silly enough to introduce them over
here.-[Philadclphia Call.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-20
Tanning Skins.

And experienced trapper recommends
the following method for tanning oil
kinds of skins with the fur on: Trim off
useless parts and scrape oil fatty matter
from the inside. If the skin is dry first
soften it by soaking; next soak tho skin
one hour in warm water; then make thin
paste with water, and one ounce each
of borax, saltpetro and glauber salts and
apply to the inside of the skin with
brush, making the coating heavier on the
thicker parts of the skin; double the
skin, coated side inward, and put away
in q cool place. At the end OF twenty
four hours apply with brush as before
coating of a mixture made by melting
together slowly and without boiling one
ounce sal soda, one-half ounce borax and
two ounces hard whito soap; fold the
skin together again as before and keep
in warm place for another twenty.four
hours: then dissolve four ounces alum,
eight ounces salt, and two ounces salcr-
atus in hot water enough to saturate tho
skin: when the water is cool enough
not to scald the hands, soak the skin for
twelve hours, then wiring it out and
hang it up to dry; the soaking and dry
ing must be repeated two or three times
until the skin is sufficiently soft; lastly,
smooth the inside with fine sand-paper
and pumice stone.'-[Ncw York World.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-20
Wisdom behind tho Counter.

"Somc one told me that smile would
90 long way toward helping me be-
come a successful salcswoman," said a
girl to whom store life was yet new,
"and have smiled and smiled until l
don't think could look solemn at the
funeral of my best friend. J. actually
grin from morning till night, and Think
I will hare to give my mouth a rest if l
don't sell dollars worth the rest of the
day. came hero with tho dctermina-
ton of being good natured and pleasant
to every one, no matter how cranky a
customer might have, but really, it is
harder work than thought. Still, 1 am
sure good nature pays, and don't know
of any position that requires more pa
tience than that of saleswoman. a
rather stupid girl with a sweet, even dis
position is moro apt to succeed than a
brighter girl who is quick tempered. l
mean to earn $50 a week some day if l
wear out my mouth smiling. TRY to be
so pleasant to my customers that they
won't let anyone else wait on them, but
ask me to take them to other counters.
Then when I get good trade my salary
will be raised and I will receive consid-
crablc extra as percentage. Yes, bright,
good naturcd girl is pretty apt to have
her salary increased in time, and need
not be afraid to begin on So week if
she has home and need not be required
to pay board while she is gaining her cx-
pericnca. In this store 81 and IS week
is the average salary" y."-[Philadelph:a
Press.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-20
Indian Wives.

There is a reservation at the mouth OF
the klamath for the InGian tribes living
in northern California. The squaws or
Young women are vendible commodities,
and are put upon the market at price
supposed to correspond with their
charms. A girls choice is not consulted
in the matter, and if rivalry exists she
is knocked down to the most liberal
offer. A maiden of comely appearance
and having a talent for plating hats,
baskets and other ornamental wicker
ware, is, of course, more merchantable
article than her sister without accom-
plishments and without beauty. The
price paid for a girl of the desirable
kind is in the neighborhood Of twelve
rcdhcaded wood-pcckers, broncho and
q breech-loading rifle. the woodpecker
heads being valued at $3.50 apiece and
the pony and gun at about $40 each,
making the price of the girl $40.
This amount varies, of course according
to the financial standing Of the purchaser
and the avarice of the parents. 1t oc-
ours occasionally that as much as $3.50 IS
given for girl, but she would be pos
sessed of unusual allurements and tho
purchaser a nabob. The lazy buck when
he has purchased wife, at once requires
the lady to enter upon all the hard work
obtainable. The women pack wood
from the forests in baskets, which are
carried on the back and supported by a
band which cncircles the forehead. They
also collect gold dust from the exposed
bedrock in abandoned mines, which is
handed over with religious regularity.
1t is q fact that the Indian women on the
klamath are absolute slaves, but they
are faithful and loving, no matter how
harshly treated.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-20
Rich Soil for Potatoes.

The potato requires more expenditure
for both seed and labor than any grain
crop, and it follows that it should be
planted on rich soil. 1t is not safe to
manure late potatoes heavily with fresh
stable manure, as its fermentation in the
soil makes just the conditions in which
the potato rot fungus fourishcs; but in
the land rich from previous manuring,
this danger docs not exist. For early
potatoes the ground can scarcely be made
too rich. The crop is marketed before
rot, in even the most unfavorable season
can do serious injury. Fresh manure is
often of great benefit to early potatoes on
land that is amply fertile to produce q
crop without it. As it ferments it keeps
the soil moist, which for early potatoes,
and during the extreme heat of summer,
is point of the greatest importance.
D1oister is apparently greater necessi-
ty in making an early potato crop than
fertility, though rich soils arc apt to
keep moisture in dry weather thaa those
less fertile. The most successful potato
growers partially insure their crop from
severe droughts by subsoiling. This re-
quires extra labor, but the reservoirs of
moisture thus stored in the subsoil, keep
the potato tops fresh and green long af-
ter those on land not subsoiled have
wlthered from combined heat and
drought. subsoiling is a partial protcc-
tion against the potato blight. 1t saves
the plants from the sudden extremes Of
temperature which prevail in shallow
soils and are the most common causes Of
the blight.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-20

the roof plunged forward into the pop
lar tree. But the branches were small
and brittle, and the figure crashed
through them and alighted in the centre
0. a great arbor-vite. Out of this again
it rolled sputtcring, groaning and twist .
ing in many contortions. Duceman
dropped Lis gun and sprang forward as
the inmates of the house came hurriedly
ont.
"Grcat heaven, Kctlow, is ityou9' ex-
claimed Duccman, as he reached the
writhng figure on the ground.
"O-oo-oo Ow-ow! yes! You've
killed me! What did you shoot for2
Oh-h-h! my hip! my hip" answered tho
writhing Kctlow.
But Duccmun was getting his breath
again.
ooh, it's only little charge of salt
that you've got," he said. "There was
no shot in it. It's only salt. But what
were you doing on the roof2 Was it you
making that noisc2
This did not stop Ketlow's smarting,
but the assurance that hc had been hurt
only with salt relieved the others of ap.
p-ehcnsion. BY degrees Ketlow ex-
planned. He had gone to the second
room as appointed. There the wailing
voice was so distinctly heard that nc ex-
pected to put his hand upon the offender
by reaching out Of the window. But
when he carefully raised the sash the
walls seemed to come from the roof
above his head. Casting about then he
found another window opening onto the
kitchen roof and from this the main roof
was easily reached. Ketlow resolved to
capture the wailing fellow while the
others were vainly watching. Without
difficulty he got the peak by the poplar
tree.
"Yes, yes; but where was the wailing
voice all the time you were sltelhS Oh
the peak there? heard it right there just
as discovered you," said Duceman i'm
patiently.
why, I was cutting it off with my
jack knife when you fired your old
cannon at me-, replied Kctlow with re-
turning Indignation at new twinge
in his hip.
"C1tting what off3' they demanded
aghast.
"The voice." said Ketlow. 1t was
the limb of that poplar tree rubbing
across the edge Of shinglc when the
wind blew. l cut it off to show you
how smooth it was worn against the
shin gle. Atlanta Constitution.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-20
THE FARM AND GARDEN.
Epilepsy In Pigs.

Pigs and other animals are sometimes
affected by disease of the nerve Gen.
tres, chiefly the brain, which causes
sudden loss of sensation and voluntary
motion, with convulsive action of the
muscles, frothing at the mouth, and re-
stricted breathing. The animal suddenly
falls, and its limbs are violently CON.
vulsed with spasmodic movements.
After two or three minutes these motions
cease and the animal lies insensible for a
short time, then gets up and moves
about in weak manner. There is no
certain remedy for this disease when its
source exists in the brain, but it is often
caused by worms, anm mia, chronic indi-
gestion, and disease of the spine. In
these cases local treatment has been
found useful. A laxative medicine, as
an ounce of raw liuseed oil, with three
drops of croton oil, may be given to O
pig year old, and after this has op-
Grated tonics in small doses, as q tea
spoonful of a mixture of one ounce each
of sulphate of iron, ground ginger, pow
dered gentian root, and powdered asa
fetida may be given daily.-[New York
Times.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-20
A Temporary Cessation.

"Now, then," said the old gentleman,
as he returned his slipper to his foot
after correcting Bobby for a serious
misdemeanor, "do you think you will
do that again, young mau9"
Bobby looked very thoughtful for a
moment, and then said: "Well, l don't
believe I will, pa, while the soreness
lasts."- Bazaar.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-20
The eve of destiny-an Egyptian en-

The eye of destiny-an Egyptian en-
blem, was the next fad. Now it is q
mouse. Mouse jewelry is already the go
in London and Paris, and is commencing
to find favor here. And women who
stand most in dread of the little, living
beast will do him honor in efligy for
fashions sake. What with pigs and
elephants and mice, the adaptation to the
animal kingdom to decorative purposes
is we'll begun. Before the work is done,
we shall be able to muster complete
menageric in a collection of the average
bellies obsolete jewelry.
Some very queer charms have come
into vogue lately, in the shape of South
American beetles. These insects are
caught and dried. They become quite
hard, and their backs afford n beautiful
play of iridesccnt colors. They arc set
in rims of gold, and often whole neck
laces are made of them. But they are
costly trinkets, for their shells are easily
crushed, when they drop to dust in their
settings. 1 saw q wonderfully pretty
and odd necklace at big jcwclry coun-
ter the other day. 1t waa made of little
crabs, united with wire links. The
metal was silver, with shadings produced
by oxidation. In the same shop was a
monkey necklace, also in silver, enam-
eled. The little monkeys were united
by their claws and tails. and they made
a very quaint and unique though de-
cidedly ugly crnamcnt.-[New York
News
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-20
Hints on Poultry Houses.

A good poultry house is as necessary
to profit in the poultry business as any
other thing connected with the business,
Farm and Garden" makes some sug-
gestion about the subject as follows: It
is an old maxim that no poultryman has
ever built poultry house that w,ud
not be changed in some respect if it
werc to be done the second time. Those
who 90 to the expense of constructing
elegantly designed and elaborately built
poultry houses may adapt them nicely
to the eye, but the hens may not be COM
Portable, and will not reward the build
er for his pains. In winter the main re-
ouirement is warmth, and low ceiling,
dry floor and tarred paper walls, costing
but very little, will induce better results
than the expense Of large sums to suit
the conveniences of the poultryman.
And this is the error all fall into-that
of constructing the poultry houses for
their convenience, when the real object
should be to consider the welfare of the
hens first, and make the preferences OF
the owner regarding his convenience
a secondary matter. While you may
object to low ceiling because you do
not care to bump your head when you
enter the house, the hen may prefer it to
be just the reverse, as it will be warmer;
and though you may wish the door
nearest your yelling house, it may thus
be on the north side, allowing the cold
blasts to creep under it and chill the
birds. You may have o particular loca-
ton for the house, and wish it to face
q point of the compass corresponding
with somo other building or object; but
the hens will prefer high ground, and
the southeast, so as to get the benefit OF
the SUMS rays, as we'll as protection
from the northeast storms. In building
poultry house. these matters should re-
ceivo their proper attention, as we'll as
the cost. The best poultry houses are
those that are usually built low to tho
ground and hence made warm.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-20
Queer Trillkets,

It is some years since the jewelers.
made the lucky pig popular trinket.
Everyone for time wore lucky pigs as
charms, bangles and what not. When
pork became a surfeit tho elephant took
It's place. Men dangled them at their
watch chains and women wore them in
their ears. They were made into pins
and pendants, and even adapted to the
establishment of finger rings and brace
lots
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-20
Fruit Troes.

Fruit trees should not be pruned when
the sap will keep the saw wet, unless
wounds are covered with o solution of
gum shcllac dissolved in alcohol.
When trees are grated they should not
be pruned, because after cutting off
several good sized limbs to set seams in,
the tree needs all the remaining branches
to keep up its usual action and vitality.
Every apple tree on a farm that does not
bear merchantablc fruit should be
grated, and grated this very spring.
"Prccrastination is the thief of time,"
and there is no use in putting off graft
ing from year to year, and gathering a
bushel or so of inferior cider-applcs
from tree which should produce two
or three barrels of Baldwins or russets,
or some other kind of fruit which has q
value.
Where an orchard is not cultivated
the soil around fruit trees should be
freshcncd up with digging fork, not
dug deeply with spade, so as to ruin
the roots, and mulch or top-dressing OF
good rich compost applied. If the soil
around the trunks of fruit trees is stirred
up frequently the insects which have
wintered in it will be turned up and de-
stroyed by exposure to the weather.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-20
Points OF q Good Mixer.

A good mixer must be uble to cat
great deal offood. Milk cannot be made
without something to make it from. Tho
cow does not sccretc milk from the
mir, but from her blood, and her blood I
is supplied from tho food she eats. To
eat q great deal q COW must have strong
jaw, and we may put this down as ono
of the marks of good milker. A strong
jaw does not necessarily require big
head, at least what is called bulls
head, large in the upper part, but
strong lower jaw, with strong muscles to
operate it. Any expansion of the head
in other directions may be detriment
as drawing from her food to support it.
A good milker must digest great deal
of food. This requires an ample stom.
ach or stomaches, for the cow has. four
A large stomach is indicated externally
by large abdomen and great breadth
between the hips, or great breadth OF
lolns. A judge OF COWS will tell you
tia: q cow should be wedge.shaped,
tapcriug from abdomen to nose.
A good mixer will have large milk
veins--that is large veins leading to the
udder, under the belly. These large
veins indicate large mixer.
Whether what is called the escutcheon,
tho portion of the hind part of the udder
and ad djacent parts on which the hairs
turn back in opposition to the general
direction of the hair, is any indication
to the milking qualities of the COW, is
disputed question. Many believe that
where it is large it indicates a good
milker; where small, poor one. Others
put no faith in it.
A soft, velvety feeling of the skin, ard
a rich, yellow color, especially in the,
inside of the ears, is believed to indicate
a rich mixer, at least, if not large
one. 1t is believed to show tendency
to fat, and consequently butter.